I tend to agree -- we already have "label" and "comment" -- why not
"placeholder"?
Anthony
On Monday, September 17, 2012 1:53:39 PM UTC-4, Richard wrote:
>
> Right!
>
> I have a questioning about placeholder attribute. I don't know what the
> plans about integration of html5 into web2py (since placeholder is a new
> attribute of input in html5), but the only place where it makes sens to set
> the placeholder value is at the field definition in the model I think. I
> don't know if it makes sens to have html attributes there. One thing for
> sure is that having placeholder support in web2py, would limit the overhead
> of modifying the form once it created.
>
> Richard
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Anthony <abas...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>>wrote:
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>> It should be 'input[type=text]' instead of "input[type='text']" (i.e.,
>> no quotes around "text" when using that syntax).
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 1:59:57 PM UTC-4, Richard wrote:
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>>> I will try, but Bruno's code was :
>>>
>>> for input in form.elements("input[type='tex**t']"):
>>> input["_placeholder"] = placeholders.get(input["_name"**], "")
>>>
>>> And it didn't catch anything...
>>>
>>> input[] return all the input...
>>>
>>> Anyway, I try and I report.
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Anthony <abas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The proper code I come up with :
>>>>>
>>>>> {{{
>>>>> for input_elem in form.elements("input[]"):
>>>>> if input_elem.attributes['_type']****=='text':
>>>>> input_elem["_placeholder"] =
>>>>> YOURPLACEHOLDERTEXT
>>>>> }}}
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Why not just form.elements('input[type=**text]') or form.elements('input',
>>>> _type='text')?
>>>>
>>>> Anthony
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>
>>> --
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